Time: 10:00am - 11:00am 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN07)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 10:00am - 11:00am 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN07)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 10:00am - 11:00am 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER07)

Abstract: If the richest man in America made his money selling software, why is the software world suddenly so crazy about open source? What are the characteristics of a really great open source project? How do you create unique value that venture capitalists will want to invest in? Why would entrepreneurs want to contribute to the open source movement? How does one get started with open source? What are the common pitfalls when you start an open source project?

Time: 10:00am - 11:00am 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC07)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN08)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN08)

Abstract: CollabNet is in the business of figuring out what makes Open Source development happen most effectively, from a processes and tools perspective, and then bringing that into "enterprise" software environments, or to support existing Open Source communities such as OpenOffice.org. I'll explain our business model, why and how we fund the development of new Open Source tools like Subversion, and how in general we are attempting to improve the ways in which all software is written.

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER08)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC08)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN09)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER09)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC09)

Abstract: Free or Open source software (FOSS as it is commonly known) has contributed significantly towards the development of an information society, especially in the sphere of e-governance. It can be an effective mechanism for governments in developing countries with limited IT budgets to propagate the use of ICT internally, providing immediate savings on upfront acquisition costs. The availability of source code also facilitates involvement of a large domestic programmer community in repair and maintenance activity, contributing to local skill development and know-how while retaining complete management control in-house. In addition, the increased reliability and security provided by FOSS has prompted its wider adoption. Governments in developing countries as China, Brazil and South Africa have already decided to turn to FOSS, but in spite of the fact that India is home to thousands of programmers who have contributed to the development of FOSS it is yet to realize its full potential.

Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN09)

Abstract: Dr Apparao will present on the Cognizant Centre of Excellence highlighting on continuous and on-going evaluation of multiple existing and emerging OSS technologies with respect to Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Inter-operability with other major middleware and third party products, Execution of customer projects in OSS/Linux space across various domains / verticals and OSS Consultancy and Re-architecting services. His talk will also discuss active participation in OSS/Linux consortium through partnerships / tie-ups with members and other open source product vendors, publishing of whitepapers and articles on open source technologies.

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN10)

Abstract: Dr Jamshed Patel will talk about the true Linux opportunity – the Enterprise Grid in his keynote presentation. His talk will focus on change in the entire deployment model, identification of standards consolidation as a true cost inhibitor, driving the commoditization of the hardware platform and delivering a lower operational cost to Oracle's Linux customers.

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN10)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER10)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC10)

Abstract: The Linux operating system is gaining importance world over due to wider usage in different application domains like e-Governance, e-Commerce, e-Learning, defence applications etc. In all these applications securing the information becomes very vital. In this context securing the systems working on the Linux operating system is of paramount importance. Security features for TCP/IP communication at the operating system level play a vital role. An approach can be taken to provide end systems security by implementing authentication, encryption and network access control mechanisms as part of the TCP/IP stack implementation of the Linux operating system kernel by intercepting the system call functionality. In addition to this one can work in providing better access control mechanisms and also in auditing the source code of Linux operating system to observe the vulnerabilities and mitigate the same.

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN11)

Abstract: News is coming in fast and furious from all over the world about the rapid adoption of open source by governments and private enterprise in developing (and some developed) nations, but interestingly this adoption is typically characterized by relationships with traditional systems vendors or focused leveraging of existing projects (as opposed to full-on engagement with and contribution to the wider open source movement). Learn from a recent first-hand observer what is actually going on with the worldwide adoption of open source and what it will take to move open source to a completely accepted role in the mainstream of software.

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN11)

Abstract: Enterprises use a variety of software products. These products are used in different scenarios (for example central office, branch office) and for different business processes (in-house, corporate usage, mission-specific, mission-critical etc.) In many cases, for a given software product, the enterprise ends up using only 20%-30% of the features of the product, but probably ends up paying the cost for the full product, because of 3rd party dependencies/licensing/OS etc. As the scale of the enterprises increases the use of optimal technology at least cost becomes a necessity rather than a good to have. Today Open-Source software is stable, robust and also available for multiple technology areas, for example, database, messaging, application servers etc. It has proven to be world-class, and often a very good alternative to equivalent commercial products. Also, most such projects have a well-defined roadmap that caters to future growth and technology issues.

Linux today is quite well proven as enterprise-class, i.e. secure, reliable and robust, especially on the server-side. Web-Browsers are becoming the de-facto way for most users to use applications. This is replacing the Windows thick-client as the preferred way for users to work. It is therefore imperative for product companies to devise their strategy and roadmaps towards supporting open platforms. Product companies that have done that already are tapping big business opportunities from large enterprises.

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER11)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC11)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN12)

Abstract: Dr Mckay Motshabi will talk about South Africa's Open Source initiative, its OSS working group, operational strategy towards policy formulation, national open source software strategy and objectives and the practical challenges of the process.

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN12)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER12)

Abstract: Does everyone need to worry about which operating system or what software packages to use? Can software be a 'utility'? Linux is becoming accepted as the OS of choice for creating, virtualized highly available data centers, which enable 'applications on tap'. This approach could be especially attractive for the SME segment, many of whom have no IT or are working with ad-hoc systems and unlicensed software. In this talk we uncover the technology underlying 'software utilities', speculate on the 'failure' of the earlier 'ASP' model and on what is required for utility computing to be different, and submit that it may be the 'future of IT'. These trends could lead to paradigm shifts in IT business models, and we examine the role open source software would play in such scenarios.

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC12)

Abstract: Most discussions about free software in India focus on its impact upon cost reductions. This talk focuses on the issue of free software as a channel for India to reach the frontiers of technology, and walk up the ladder of knowledge in international production chains.

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Keynotes (KN19)

Panelists: Sunil Saxena, Mary Ann Fisher, Danese Cooper, Brian Behlendorf, Robin Miller, Sudhir Gandotra, Amit Babaria, Rajeev Kamath

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Enterprise (EN19)

Abstract: Not received

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Entrepreneur (ER19)

Abstract: 7 steps to software samadhi: migrating from Windows to GNULinux for the non-techie in a hurry.

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm 
Date: Thursday, Feb 12
Track: Social (SC19)

Abstract: This is, as per my impression, for the first time that a government body has converted to Unicode and that too on Free Software. Many other governments and Public Sector bodies and other corporates will have this similar problem. Note that 35% of PCs in the country (India) are in Maharashtra.

Accomplished: We have are converted the Marathi content originally created in various ISFOCfonts of C-DAC (using ISM and I-Plugin in several proprietary softwares) into UNICODE based, open type fonts which have been developed and made freely available by us. We had to convert the legacy documents in new fonts, integrate the same with existing database of the government (one department to start with, i.e. Directorate of IT), install Open Source software in some machines and demonstrate and train a few people so that all fresh work can begin in UNICODE now. Task of making the database metafiles in UNICODE has also been completed.

Underestimation: After initially estimating about 1000 files, we have actually processed about 6000 files.

File types and fonts: Thus we converted files with table and without, from Lotus Word Processor, MSWord, PowerPoint, Excel etc and using DV-TT, DVB-TT and DVBW fonts.

Font developed: We also developed Gargi font: Initiated By Dr Nagarjun of Free Software Foundation (India), right from the beginning (July 2002) our personnel developed and now we at indictrans maintain the font. During conversion we came across some deficiencies. For more complete snapshots of performance of our fonts on all platforms and applications check our website. We have also developed a Gujarati font Padmaa (my mother's name). We have translated the GUI messages in Marathi and Gujarati, (while modified IndLinux) Hindi.

Localised: We have also translated GUI messsages in Marathi, Gujarati for GNOME 2.4 and have modified some translations for Hindi as coordinated by IndLinux. We have also localsed DrGeo and other small software to show proof of concept. We maintain a website as collaboration platform, www.indictrans.org.